Nightly

What's Changed

• detours 1.5 to 4.01 update, C++17 updates, other fixes by @lucifer602288 in #130
• unique meshlib for each npc by Gratt-5r2 by @lucifer602288 in #133
• temporarily disable multicore shader compilation by @kirides in #134
• Fix hooking zCActiveSndAutoCalcObstruction by @lucifer602288 in #135
• • Exclude forest portals when doing second depthbuffer draw of world … by @SaulMyers in #138
• Cleaning up the shader for the 'forest portals' by @SaulMyers in #139
• Update build.yml by @kirides in #143
• Update release.yml by @kirides in #144
• Merge latest changes from @SaiyansKing by @kirides in #142
• Merge latest changes from @SaiyansKing by @lucifer602288 in #150
• Render fog zones in Gothic 1 by @ThielHater in #153

Full Changelog: v17.8-dev9...nightly

v17.8-dev9

includes all changes from https://github.com/SaiyansKing/GD3D11/releases/tag/v17.8-dev9

• Fix foam on waterfalls (SaiyansKing@a64abdd)
• Water shader will now darken / lighten with day / night cycle (SaiyansKing@2a88781)
• Add possibility to scale fonts by using function "UpdateCustomFontMultiplier" (SaiyansKing@7a6e1b2 SaiyansKing@247ed77)
• Read ShadowAOStrength and WorldAOStrength from INI (SaiyansKing@15170cc)
• Write ShadowAOStrength and WorldAOStrength to INI (SaiyansKing@2722d5a)
• Fix loading 16bit textures (SaiyansKing@fb7d631)
• Remove half-pixel offset from shaders (SaiyansKing@4d16252)
• Rewrited Animated_Inventory SystemPack option (SaiyansKing@7d7116b)
• Fix texture sampler for UI (SaiyansKing@4a99dfb)
• Fix sun jump on the sky at 12:00 (SaiyansKing@fc362df)
• Synchronize skytime when atmosphere scattering is disabled (SaiyansKing@a91e463)
• Add font rendering support for Gothic I (SaiyansKing@adb5caa)
• Change default settings (enable font rendering and disable normalmaps) (SaiyansKing@adb5caa)

also includes

• updated assimp-vs142-mt.dll
• improved handling when UserSettings.ini is not found (@SaiyansKing eeb4c57)

v17.8-dev4-ci: Merge branch 'SaiyansKing_master'

Courtesy of @SaiyansKing

dev2

• Fix occlusion culling dangling pointer crash
• Fix possible crash at GothicAPI::OnVisualDeleted
• Optimize a little file reads

dev2-fix1

• Don't issue new occlusion query when old still haven't finished
• Fix DXVK crashing at device creation

dev2-fix2

• Fix GD3DX7 Z-buffer destruction possible crash

dev3

• Fix drawing helper vobs in SpacerNET - by: @postm1
• Fix mouse in SpacerNET - by: @postm1
• Fix dynamic shadows in indoor locations like sewers
• Fix corrupted savegame thumbnails
• Fix crash when loading corrupted setting files
• Improve display resolutions detection

dev4

• Make it possible for mouse cursor to leave to another monitor when GD3D11 settings are visible - by: @kirides
• Disable tesselation from build as it keeps to crash graphic drivers and make impossible to save zenresources from advanced menu
• Fix getting thread id from main thread
• Remove spheremap normals encoding as it make some horrible visual glitches
• Make it possible to render scene without normalmaps to avoid artifacts from using standard normalmap
• Fix potential problems with some drawcalls
• Implement raining time calculations with atmospheric scattering enabled
• Make zFILE_VDFS zengine class to be able to operate on pointers that are allocated above 2GB memory virtual address on older system packs

other

• Fix line drawing(fix flickering and z-position (43edbb0)

v17.8-dev1-fix1

exception free float parsing with warning logging and properly passing nRead from GetPrivateProfileStringA to std::string constructor

v17.8-dev1

Release Notes

This is a huge release and all thanks to @SaiyansKing who presumably did all this by himself, unless otherwise noted in mentioned commits 😉

Update: For those who want the new "one zip for all gothic versions" package, there is a separate release (https://github.com/kirides/GD3D11/releases/tag/v17.8-dev1_pipelineupdate) future releases will automatically be packaged in a single zip (excluding Spacer_NET for now)

v17.7-dev20..dev22

• Fix hashing render states over uninitialized variables (7f81d93)
• Fix some awful glitches in indoor locations with enabled shadows (7f81d93)
• Remove unused calculations for some particle effects (7f81d93)
• Force water to be rendered always when texture is available (7f81d93)
• Change cache-in to not check for cache-out since dx7 code doesn't check for it too (7f81d93)
• Allow Steam Overlay to properly acquire/release inputs (7f81d93)

v17.7-dev22..dev23

• Fix broken fixed-function pipeline vertex shaders (8dfa95b)
• Fix possible broken winding order when drawing HUD (8dfa95b)
• Allow to set night-only with negative timescale value (98ec319)
• Get rid of unneeded .bin files (3f8a87f)
• Resolve most warnings at compilation (3f8a87f)
• Ditch XCALL macro for safer and faster direct calls since they can be inlined (3f8a87f)

v17.7-dev23..dev24

• Add experimental support for feature_level_10_0 (203bc6c)
• Limit shadowmap size to 8192 for feature_level_10_0 comaptibility graphic cards (5e4e9bf)
• Fix Stream Output Geometry Shaders for feature_level_10_0 (5e4e9bf)
• Disable weird caching for cached-out surfaces (5e4e9bf)
• Mark every loaded polygon from indoor location as "indoor" (5e4e9bf)
• Render indoor vobs in indoor locations using render distances from normal vobs (5e4e9bf)
• Fix textures memory leak (1d08855)
• Unbind backbuffer after drawing water because some gpu drivers might have problem with drawing to texture that is currently bound (fb85f3e)
• Add low fps nan check and fix morph mesh animation glitch at 60fps patches from unions (fb85f3e)
• Rework the way global message broadcast fix is working (fb85f3e)
• Improve water animation by adding support for drawing using texAniMap material info (fb85f3e)

v17.7-dev24..dev25

• Add support for animating morph mesh vobs (9283484)
• Change quad buffers from dynamic to immutable (586984d)
• Remove unneeded cubemap SRV's (fe3caeb)
• Guard Morph Mesh Visual object from destruction (- 19c6c27)
• Fix D3DXERR_CAPSNOTSUPPORTED error (9578d7f)
• Remove unused pending movie frames check (11766cb)
• Use staging textures for updating textures data (11766cb)
• Remove unneeded deferred context (11766cb)
• Remove some unneeded and unused code (d46dcfc)
• Optimize water TexAniMap (d46dcfc)

v17.7-dev25..dev26

• Display correct number of drawn triangles (c5dfcb0)
• Optimize drawing model attached morph meshes(like heads) (c5dfcb0)
• Fix ComputePointAABBDistance not calculating correctly distance (c5dfcb0)
• Fix dynamic lights huge impact on FPS in some locations (c5dfcb0)
• Improve loading times by disabling some unnecessary features for GD3D11 (c5dfcb0)
• Show DirectX11 as currently used graphic device in video options (c5dfcb0)
• Open GD3D11 settings menu when going into video options (c5dfcb0)
• Fix vertex buffers memory leak (f4c9997)
• Prevent DX7 PackStaticVertexBuffers from loading unneeded vertex buffers (f4c9997)
• Calculate correctly instanced geometry drawed triangles (f4c9997)
• Show per frame drawed tris on toggle frame (f4c9997)
• Close GD3D11 settings menu when detecting pressed escape key (f4c9997)

v17.7-dev26..dev27

• Fix rendered decals alignment towards camera (2c8e253)
• Correctly fix duplicating rendered vobs in G1 (2c8e253)
• Optimize a little bit OnVobMoved function (2c8e253)
• Change the way to acquire textures for animated meshes (2c8e253)
• Skip loading unneeded lightmap textures (2c8e253)
• Fix problem where we can have locked 20 FPS (2c8e253)
• Add gothic executable detector to make it possible to pack GD3D11 in monolithic way (2c8e253)
• Update known_issues.md (96b94fd)

v17.7-dev27..dev28

• Fix rendering missing ingame decals (7a14f63)
• Decouple barrier from sky drawing in G1 which allows us to draw barrier with atmospheric scattering (7a14f63)
• Fix crash when deleting visuals that can still be in use (00764c0)
• Change back reference to copy (de5ad92)
• Improve skeletal and mob vobs lighting (4ba4d58)

v17.7-dev28..dev29

• Add support for better bink video handling with Union/Systempack FixBink (1d670ac)
• Scale heads with fatness value without depending on distance from camera (1d670ac)
• HDR monitor colorspace support in Windows 10 (8fc887a)
  Co-Authored-By: @lucifer602288 (Keks1)
• Use correct normals for skeletal meshes to improve lighting and scaling (81cbe7d)

v17.7-dev29

• Fix changing shadows in settings (2b05276)

v17.7-dev30

• Avoid recalculating UI every frame (19c5855)
• Add rain options to settings (19c5855)
• Reduce wet glare duration after rain (19c5855)
• Use ClearKeyBuffer when using GD3D11 settings (19c5855)
• Change the way models acquire LightStatic value (19c5855)
• Fix ClipCursor rectangle (19c5855)

v17.7-dev31

• Fix using settings in freelook camera mode (bd1be6c)
• Send currently used resolution incase for some reason it is unavailable to avoid any UI cut offs (bd1be6c)
• Fix not working low latency mode (bd1be6c)
• Fix crash when changing resolutions in low latency mode (bd1be6c)
• Fix changing resolutions in general (bd1be6c)
• Make fullscreen exclusive to work correctly as intended (bd1be6c)
• Add option to change window modes in settings(need to restart the game after change) (bd1be6c)

Co-Authored-By: @lucifer602288 (Keks1)

v17.7-dev32..dev33

• Patch dx7 functions that do window transitions (0294c99)
• Add additional check for waterfall foam in G1 to avoid false positives (0294c99)
• Rewrite cinema scope and screen fade effects into native GD3D11 functions (0294c99)
• Enabled Dynamic Shadows can make lights disappear when Shadows are disabled (fad14d7)
• Fix saving rain settings (9980c13)
• Update Assimp to 5.1.2 (8116e90)

v17.7-dev33..dev34

• Disable culling for UI drawing(LeGo script packet doesn't follow CW winding order and any Sprite it tries to draw doesn't pass the test) (9b639ff)
• Add option to reduce light intensity for scene where are many lights that can make scene to be overexposed(e.g. old camp in Othello Mod) (9b639ff)
• Add some quantization to skeletal meshes to reduce bandwidth (9b639ff)
• Revert temporarily back to bind pose normals for skeletal meshes since bone accurate normals can result in some weird glitches on some modifications (9b639ff)
• Add forgotten culling state changes (45f785d)
• Fix mouse cursor visibility with Union Mouse Wrapper in G1 (833adfa)
• Force showing mouse cursor in settings (833adfa)

v17.7-dev34

• Remove harmful patch for G1 (3...

v17.8-dev1_pipelineupdate

Generated release from GitHub Actions

v0.1-ci-2

Generated release from GitHub Actions

v17.7-dev20 - Spacer.NET Support and automatic builds with GitHub Action workflows

• Introduced separate build for Spacer.NET usage
  • These builds also work with regular Gothic 2 NotR, but have reduced performance, due to Spacer.NET handling code.
  • they are recommended for your typical mod development installation, where Spacer.NET is installed.
• builds are now automatically build by GitHub actions, so people can rest assured that the code that's on GitHub is the code that built the release!
  • These releases all come with a xyz.zip.sha256 hash, which lets you verify that you downloaded the correct file

Generated release from GitHub Actions

v17.7-dev19-fix4 - Fixes (Ghost) NPC detection in Returning 2 AB/NB

• Implemented "vob is npc" check using zCClassDef comparison for the whole inheritance chain.

v17.7-dev19-fix3 - regression regarding dynamic shadows fixed

• 9573f16 @SaiyansKing
  • Fix dynamic shadows
    Fix winding order when rendering skeletal meshes within dynamic shadows that makes some lights disappear

EDIT: The Gothic 2 AVX build is actually built with AVX2 optimizations!. I changed the filename accordingly.